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Silver prices have Idaho's Silver Valley companies booming

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By Nicholas K. Geranios
Associated Press
via Helena Independent Record
Helena, Montana
Saturday, May 12, 2007

http://helenair.com/articles/2007/05/12/montana/000silver.txt

KELLOGG, Idaho -- As a precious metal, silver doesn't have the allure of gold. As an investment, it's not as hip as Google.

But dowdy old silver is suddenly chic.

There's a lot of money floating around with nothing to do

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If its owners had any sense, they'd buy something real, shiny, and yellow.

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Wall of Money Chasing Exotic Hedge Funds

By James Mackintosh
Financial Times, London
Saturday, May 12, 2007

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/fd330478-0024-11dc-8c98-000b5df10621.html

Disinformation about gold from The Globe and Mail

Section: Daily Dispatches

9:15a ET Saturday, May 12, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Toronto's Globe and Mail today provides an example of the worst of journalism -- a story full of attitudinizing mockery that contains hints of its own contradiction but carefully avoids pursuing them or even allowing its targets to speak for themselves, concluding with an anonymous attack.

Business News Network interviews Peter Grandich

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8:25a ET Saturday, May 12, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Blanchard research note: Spain is latest to try to clobber gold

Section: Daily Dispatches

11a ET Friday, May 11, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

Today's research note from Neal Ryan of Blanchard & Co. reports a huge sale of gold by Spain's central bank, more evidence of the intensifying struggle of the central banks to suppress gold at this particular time. You can find the Blanchard research note at GoldSeek here:

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1178895721.php

Foreign bondholders seen undeterred by weak dollar

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By Lucia Mutikani
Reuters
Friday, May 11, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSN1046448720070511?src=051...

NEW YORK -- Foreign appetite for U.S. Treasuries is unlikely to wane despite the dollar's slump, thanks to China's slow pace of currency reforms and a large pool of petrodollars that need to be recycled.

China will diversify mainly with new dollars, not old ones

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From China Daily, Beijing
via Xinhuanet.com
Friday, May 11, 2007

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-05/11/content_6083732.htm

BEIJING -- The central bank said yesterday that the country will not sell large amounts of U.S. dollar-denominated assets to diversify its foreign exchange reserves.

CMRE audience wonders why gold falls hard on bad news for dollar

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12:14a ET Friday, May 11, 2007

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:

With copper coin, Liberty Dollar defies U.S. Mint's threat

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Company Press Release
via PRNewswire
and Yahoo News
Tuesday, May 8, 2007

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070508/cltu104.html?.v=24

EVANSVILLE, Indiana -- Liberty Dollar announced today that it has issued a new $1 Copper Liberty that defies the U.S. Mint's previous warning that only the use, not possession, of the new currency was illegal.

Ted Butler: A clear parallel

Section: Daily Dispatches

4:25p ET Tuesday, May 8, 2007

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